Future participles in the writings of Zamenhof

Abstract

We examine the use of compound tenses containing active and passive future participles in the writings of L. Zamenhof. Since Yiddish, Russian and Polish, the principal languages used by Zamenhof, do not have future participles, they offered no guidance for him to set rules, not even implicit ones, about the use of future participles in compound tenses. This study aims to shed some light on the use of compound tenses containing future participles in the original writings, the frequency of their use and their temporal-aspectual values.